{"id":87,"date":"2008-12-16T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willemkossen.nl\/b\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:07:28","slug":"twittastic-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/willemkossen.nl\/b\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Twittastic or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The day has come that I write a post about twitter.com<\/a>. I\u2019ve been using this service for a long time and it can\u2019t, nor should be ignored. Many have written before about this microblogging platform that allows you to virtually group-text your followers so it will be a challenge to be anywhere near original in this post. Heck, I\u2019ll try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twitter<\/a> can be considered a large waste of time and bandwidth<\/a> by some, but many gladly waste there time there as you can measure on tweetwasters.com<\/a>. As it turns out, it\u2019s a challenge to grow your crowd of followers and than be modest about that. I have just over 530 followers as I\u2019m writing this down. That\u2019s not enough by far, so don\u2019t hesitate to start following me on twitter.com\/wkossen<\/a>. (sorry for the blatent advertisement of myself..)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But why\u2026. Why should you follow anyone on Twitter, why follow me? Why follow the bigshot tweeple (twittering people) like Guy Kawasaki<\/a> or Chris Brogan? (sorry for all of you bigshots that I didn\u2019t name (shame?) in this post\u2026) Well, it\u2019s fun. that\u2019s why. It could be educational as well, depending on your interests. It could prevent boredom, and you could discover new things, new people and new sites to visit. You even could discover the \u2018hot-stuff\u2019 people are tweeting about on twitscoop.com<\/a>. And is you want you can actually contribute as well. Twitter has an open API<\/a> that you can use to create new services or applications around Twitter. So all this has been a nice introduction leading up to the presentation of my first contribution, the Wikipedia Random Article Tweetbot<\/em> twitter.com\/wikipediabot. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s that? Well, it\u2019s a automatic twittering program on my server that sends out tweets to it\u2019s followers. Those tweets are just random http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org articles in tinyurl.com<\/a> form with their titles. It does so once an hour 24\/7 and (if the server stays up) 365 days a year. @wikipediabot<\/a> is at your service!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that this is my very first attempt at something like this and I\u2019m not the most experienced developer in the world (I used to code basic one day\u2026) so there will be room for improvement on this. Just comment here what you would like improved or send me a reply on twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you liked this post, don\u2019t hesitate to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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